Today, her boys Jack and Christopher have gone an "adventure" in the tree-grove behind their house.

They were pirates today, using long, wrapping-paper tubes as swords which doubled as telescopes. The two were running around, chasing each other through the trees as the day's air slowly turned to night and the sky grew pink, then orange, then black.

She hasn't yet called them inside for dinner. She's not quite ready.

She puts down her pen and rubs her eyes and she knows only one of them will come inside.